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Seneca, Epistula ad Lucilium 124 (a cura di Pietro Li Causi, traduzione e commento cooperativi della classe V L del Liceo Scientifico "S. Cannizzaro"…
2019
A group translation and a philological and philosophical commentary on Seneca, Epistula ad Lucilium 124
Due note a Seneca (de ira 1.11.5; de matr. fr. 38 V. = 16 B.)
2001
Il bisturi di Mazzoli sul corpus di Seneca tragico
2017
Recensione a G. Mazzoli, «Il chaos e le sue architetture» (Palumbo), che raccoglie trent’anni di studi esemplari. Giancarlo Mazzoli restituisce un’idea coerente, complessa ma non contraddittoria, di Seneca tragico.
Gli exempla filosofici e storici nei Dialogorum libri di Seneca. Forme e funzioni retoriche e ideologiche.
2014
Analisi degli exempla presenti nei Dialogorum libri di Seneca e loro confronto con la tradizione retorica, letteraria e diatribica antica. Analysis of exempla found in Seneca's Dialogorum libri and their comparison with the rhetorical tradition, literature and ancient diatribe.
Coniectanea (IV)
2021
Si cerca di sanare per congettura alcuni passi di Seneca filosofo e della commedia anonima tardo-latina "Querolus" We try to heal by conjecture some passages of Seneca the philosopher and of the late Latin anonymous comedy "Querolus"
Albertino Mussato e le «Troades» di Seneca
2018
This paper offers an analysis of the relations between Albertino Mussato and Seneca’s tragedy, particularly between Mussato’s «Ecerinis» and Seneca’s «Troades». This latin tragedy has a big influence on «Ecerinis», by frequent allusions and quotations, and by the themes of war, cruelty and fortune.
Recensione a: Nicola Trevet, Commento alla «Phaedra» di Seneca, ediz. critica a cura di Cl. Fossati, Firenze 2007 (in «Studi Medievali», n.s., 51,1 […
2010
Recensione dell'ediz. critica del commento alla «Phaedra» di Seneca stilato dal domenicano inglese Nicola Trevet agli inizi del sec. XIV. Storia degli studi sull'autore, discussione dei criteri filologici seguiti dall'editrice Clara Fossati, analisi e disamina di singoli passi.
"Von den lateinischen Trauerspielen welche unter dem Namen des Seneca bekannt sind" Lessings Auseinandersetzung mit Seneca
2021
The essay offers an analysis of Lessing's dramaturgy from the perspective of its fruitful relationship with the literary tradition of the ancient world, with particular attention to the problem of translation.
Veniet Tempus (QNat.7.25): Stoic Philosophy and Roman Genealogy in Seneca's View of Scientific Progress
2014
Seneca's views on the future development of knowledge have often been interpreted as an enlightened anticipation of the modern faith in progress. And Seneca himself has been depicted as a sort of Condorcet avant la lettre. In the present paper, I argue that while it is extremely interesting to investigate the reception of Senecan patterns in modern thought, the writer's idea of scientific and moral enhancement should primarily be understood in the intellectual and socio-anthropological framework of ancient culture. Indeed, a reassessment of the evidence offered by the Natural Questions and the Moral Epistles shows that Seneca devises a broadly conceived spectrum of progress, which reflects …
Commune Ius Animantium (Clem. 1.18.2): Seneca's Naturalism and the Problem of Animal Rights
2013
The present paper focuses on an intriguing passage of Seneca's treatise 'On Clemency' (De Clementia) dealing with the topic of human and animal rights (1.18.1-2). This is the only passage in which the Latin philosopher employs the juridically and philosophically significant expression 'commune ius animantium', thus referring to a form of nature-based 'animal right'. In Seneca's words, there would be a common right of living beings forbidding to perpetrate certain acts of violence. On the whole, however, the passage seems to aim at maintaining the inviolability of human rights, paying special attention to the pitiful condition of slaves. Given the presence of such a man-centered context, sch…